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title: רֶמֶשׂ — creeping things · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רֶמֶשׂ (7431), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: creeping things. BDB 1906: n.m. coll. creeping things, moving things. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רֶמֶשׂ

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«רֶמֶשׂ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **creeping things** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 17 times · **Key:** 7431 · **BDB:** רֶ֫מֶשׂ

### Glosses

creeping.thing\[s\] (5); thing (5); (the).creeping.thing (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

creeping things [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7431/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. coll. creeping things, moving things [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7431/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 38:20 coll. creeping things, moving things;—ר׳ abs. 1 K 5:13 +, cstr. Ho 2:20 +;— creeping things (disting. from בְּהֵמָה, חַיָּה, עוֹף, צִפּוֹר, דָּג) Ho 2:20; 1 K 5:13; Ez 8:10; 38:20; Gn 1:24, 25, 26; 6:7, 20; 7:14, 23; 8:17, 19 (all P), Hb 1:14 (in sim.) ψ 148:10. of sea animals, gliding things, ψ 104:25. moving things, of all animals Gn 9:3 (P).—Cf. DrHast. DB Creeping Things.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רֶמֶשׂ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7431/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 148:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.148.10/)

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הַֽחַיָּ֥ה וְכָל־בְּהֵמָ֑ה רֶ֝֗מֶשׂ וְצִפּ֥וֹר כָּנָֽף׃

*Word for word:* O animal\[s\] and all livestock creeping.thing\[s\] and bird\[s\] of.wing

*JPS 1917:* Beasts and all cattle, creeping things and winged fowl;

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[Habakkuk 1:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.14/)

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וַתַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֖ם כִּדְגֵ֣י הַיָּ֑ם כְּרֶ֖מֶשׂ לֹא־מֹשֵׁ֥ל בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and you.have.made humankind like the.fish(es) of the.sea like creeping.thing\[s\] \[which\].not a.ruler \[is\].over it

*JPS 1917:* And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

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